Trivia Quiz for Geeks
These are the questions to the Geek Trivia Quiz I ran for
SAGE-WISE for their winter
social.
Books
| 00 | Which software is described in O'Reilly's Bat? |
| 01 | What is the title of the Camel? |
| 02 | The animal on the cover of Windows 98 Annoyances
is a Bufo Bufo. But what is it? |
Old Farts
| 03 | What does PDP-10 stand for? |
| 04 | When was Perl1 released unto the world? |
| 05 | When was the Morris Worm? |
| 06 | Name one of the people credited with designing TCP/IP? |
| 07 | Name the other! |
Techno-Geek
| 08 | Which animal is printed on the motherboard of a Sun IPX? |
| 09 | The Swiss Army Knife of sysadmins is Perl. But what does it stand for? |
| 0a | What's war-driving? |
| 0b | And war chalking? |
| 0c | For what does ASCII stand? |
| 0d | Which RFC describes "IP over Avian Carriers"? |
Picture Round
Name the four people in the photos:
"Culture"
| 12 | In which city does the Linux Alan Cox live? |
| 13 | What is the Scary Devil Monistery? |
| 14 | On usenet, what is the date today? |
| 15 | Jon Johansen. Who is he? |
| 16 | For what does YKYBHTLW stand? |
| 17 | Where did the helpdesker description "bob" originate? |
| 18 | Who is said to have originated the expression "like nailing jelly to
a tree"? |
| 19 | About whom did Bradley Chait say that it was "a nice compliment from a lass"? |
Games
| 1a | Who wrote the music for Quake 3? |
| 1b | In Frontier, what is the first recognised rank in the Imperial Navy? |
| 1c | What character is a wizard represented by in nethack? |
| 1d | How many blocks did each of the pieces in Tetris have? |
| 1e | On irc, what command sends an emote to a user? |
| 1f | What kind of animal was Repton? |
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